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...Bret Harte. Little Brown and Co.'s New and Elegant Ed. of Francis Parkman, 20 vol., 120 ill. by Goupil and Co., Paris. All Eds. of the Standard Authors from $12 to $100 (Eds. de Luxe); Superb Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated), 15 vol.- very rare. Standard Dictionary and Encyclopaedia Brittanica...
...Bret Harte. Little Brown and Co.'s New and Elegant Ed. of Francis Parkman, 20 vol., 120 ill. by Goupil and Co., Paris. All Eds. of the Standard Authors from $12 to $100 (Eds. de Luxe); Superb Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated), 15 vol.- very rare. Standard Dictionary and Encyclopaedia Brittanica...
...Bret Harte. Little Brown and Co.'s New and Elegant Ed. of Francis Parkman, 20 vol., 120 ill. by Goupil and Co., Paris. All Eds. of the Standard Authors from $12 to $100 (Eds. de Luxe); Superb Ed. of the Arabian Nights (unexpurgated), 15 vol.- very rare. Standard Dictionary and Encyclopaedia Brittanica...
...best and most productive of his efforts were given to this University; and he contributed as much as any single man to the establishment of our Graduate School. He had a rare combination of qualities, both of mind and of temper, to make him a superior teacher of advanced pupils. For him classical learning was no mere accomplishment, a pleasing ornament for a man of letters, but an important branch of Anthropology, giving insight into the mental operations and intellectual and moral growth of ancient peoples. To him literature and monuments were records of life, and were to be interpreted...
...Latin. In the autumn of 1847 he went to Germany to study Philogy, and he worked there steadily four years at different universities, chiefly at Gottingen, where he took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1851. His doctor's dissertation, entitled "Smyrnaeorum Resgestae et Antiquitates," gained the rare compliment from one of his most distinguished teachers, Karl Friedrich Hermann of Gottingen, of being mentioned in his work on Greek Antiquities, in which these words still stand in the fifth edition: "Welche fleissige Arbeit alle sonstige Nachweisungen uber diese Stadt (Smyrna) unnothig macht." Another distinguished professor at Gottingen, Schneidenin...